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Looking to help increase the widespread acceptance of high-quality powerline enabled connectivity for home networking and IPTV applications; DS2 (News - Alert) has announced the availability of a new compact reference design, the DE21P module for embedded powerline communications applications. Enabling product differentiation, DE21P can be used in various products such as set top boxes, home gateways, remote speaker systems, IP cameras, or personal computers.

 

The optimized module pin out of the Reference Design provides facilities such as flexible power supply for the easiest integration with single, dual or triple supply; GPIO for advanced features, such as one button security set-up that removes the need for PC configuration, and multi-color powerline link status indicator; MII for high speed applications like Ethernet to powerline adapter; UART interface that allows for integration of service data; and TDM / I2S for optimum use in native audio applications.

 

With the E21P Embedded Powerline Modem, users can have a fully plug and play networking experience. The new processing capabilities, with their on-chip support for native TR-069 client software in the powerline modem, offer a standard solution for service providers to manage their customers’ home networks. Also, users can have a simplified configuration of home networking devices, with the embedded web page present in each Aitana chipset. The DE21P has managed queues with multiple priority levels and strict bandwidth and latency guarantees. With the DE21P node, users can ensure that each traffic stream is allocated its required network resources. The services supported include Data, VoIP, IPTV (News - Alert) or Video on Demand on the same network.

 

DS2´s DE21P Embedded Powerline modem Reference Design can be used with Aitana. Aitana is the DS2’s 200 Mbps chipset solution for high-speed multimedia home networking, consumer electronics and service provider IPTV applications. The customers for DS2´s 200 Mbps solution include British Telecom, Portugal Telecom (News - Alert), and Telefonica in commercial self-install IPTV services. The solution is available through retail stores for multimedia home networking applications from manufacturers that include Buffalo, D-Link, Conceptronic, Corinex Communications, Logitec and Netgear (News - Alert).

 

With the help of DE21P reference design, users can move quickly into production of powerline enabled devices. It provides full-connectivity and a powerful application programming environment allowing the quick development of custom applications.